Seattle
sometimes I talk about Seattle
By bluerasberry on 2008-11-23
This week I went to a conference for Fred Hutch’s HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). The network has been slow with bringing in new research for the past year because of the disappointing results in the STEP trial and the lack of funding in HIV issues which has been characteristic of the Bush administration. Time […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, jargon, MedRest, microbicide, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2008-11-02
I met this Indian at a coffeeshop the other day. I was practicing Hindi writing (my tutor Ali at http://www.zabaan.com/ is awesome!) and he came up to me and asked me if I spoke Hindi. I answered him in Hindi and asked him if he spoke Hindi, but he just said he did not speak […]
Posted in education, encounter, India, Seattle | Tagged coffee, Hindi
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-20
I have been at my new job for three months now, full-time. I think that possibly I have put in more hours of non-self-employed work at this job than from every other job I have had put together. I talked to my dear Aunt Vicki a few weeks ago and somehow she had gotten word […]
Posted in education, health, Seattle, work | Tagged grades, insurance, public health, social status
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-02
Since I started my job as a clinical researcher a few months ago I have not done any data collection. I and Danielle, the other researcher, have been preparing paperwork so that we can begin paperwork. Right now the independent reviewers from DC are here looking at what we have done and then they will […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, presentation, Seattle, work | Tagged Ballard, fundraiser, government, hampster, Hindi, library, license, sport
By bluerasberry on 2008-07-03
I attended Gay Pride in Seattle 2008 as a presenter in the non-profit section of the expo. I was representing Sanjeevani Booti as an American agent and I was trying to raise awareness and get social support for issues relating to HIV in India. I talked about Benares. I told people that it was the […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, India, Nepal, non-profit, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged expo, heroin, Seattle Gay Pride, volunteer, war, women's rights, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2008-04-12
Seattle has a population of about 580,000. For the Gay Pride festival last summer the recorded attendance was 200,000 with 100,000 from out of town. I know that the organizers always inflate these numbers but still it means that a lot of people are involved in this. Nandan and I are getting more serious about […]
Posted in education, festival, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged gay rights, hijra, HIV project, NGO, Sanjeevani Booti
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-12
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-10
I visited Gay City on 500 E Pike last week. I was planning on going there anyway, but then I saw an ad on craigslist looking for Seattle bloggers to write about gay rights in other countries. I saw an opportunity to get publicity for S.B. but when I responded, the guy said it had […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, data, logistics
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-25
Yesterday I went to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to meet with their director of marketing, Asia Rau. I normally do not pay too much attention to any person’s race but I did notice that this girl did not look ethnically Asian. Lifelong has about a hundred paid staff members and goes through about sixteen million dollars […]
Posted in education, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, logistics, money